Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-470) and index
1. Approaching application integration -- Part I. Types of application integration -- 2. Information-oriented application integration -- 3. Business process integration-oriented application integration -- 4. service-oriented application integration -- 5. Portal-oriented application integration -- Part II. Application integration technology -- 6. Middleware basics -- 7. Middleware types and application integration: what works where? -- 8. Java-based middleware standards and application integration -- 9. Integration servers and application integration -- 10. Adapters and the J2EE connector architecture -- Part III. Application integration standards -- 11. XML, XSLT, and application integration -- 12. ebXML and application integration -- 13. BPEL4WS and application integration -- 14. UCCNET and ROSETTANET: supply chain integration standards -- 15. SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, oh my ... web services foundations and application integration -- 16. Other standards -- Part IV. Advanced topics -- 17. The "verticalization" of application integration technology -- 18. 12 steps to application integration -- 19. Leveraging ontologies and application integration -- 20. application integration manifesto -- Appendix -- A. PIP specification -- B. Where XML fits with application integration -- C. Knowledge-oriented middleware